DNS-SD and Dynamic Updates

[Mark Andrews]

> Hey everybody -
> I'm running Bind 9.3.4 (-2etch1) on Debian with kernel version 2.6.18-4.
> I've been trying to set up DNS-SD on our production servers and have ran
> into a snag. There are two slave servers, two caches and a master
> authoritative server. I enabled update-forwarding on the caches and slaves
> to the master, and set up a key based authentication system. When I actually
> try to test things out via nsupdate, I get the following error server side:
> 
> named[3975]: socket.c :1898: unexpected error:
> named[3975]: internal_accept: fcntl() failed: Too many open files
> named[3975]: zone bonjour.bowdoin.edu/IN/default : could not forward dynamic
> update to 10.140.226.26#53: unexpected error
> 
> A quick googling pointed me to another user with a similar unresolved
> problem.
> 
> http://readlist.com/lists/isc.org/bind-users/0/4480.html

	No. That is a completely different problem.
 
> Anyone figure out what was going wrong between then and now?
> 
> Thanks so much,
> Nathan Merritt

	You have to many file descriptors open.

	Are you running lots of virtual interfaces on this box?
	Named uses 2 descriptors per interface (1 UDP and 1 TCP)

	Assuming this is the problem limit the number of descriptors
	named listens on (see listen-on and listen-on-v6).

	Otherwise you have lots of incoming TCP connections
	see tcp-clients.

	Otherwise you have lots of simultious zone transfers 
	see transfers-per-ns, transfers-in, transfers-out.

	Mark
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